Long Hyperventilating Poems

*last winter break*

I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...

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My opinion on religion Take 1
I am in the unexpected throes of spring cleaning
Suddenly with no warning 
7 people are unexpectedly arriving in a few minutes for an Easter lunch.
Easter lunch already?
Why didn’t anyone mention...

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Hopeful

Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark path
His old friend ‘Panic’ enters causes a disturbing wrath

‘Humming the...

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We came here pretentious, egoistic, hyper-inflated with our meager academic laurels and
filled with self-adulation of our GPAs
You saw us plainly; our minds almost blank like a tabular rasa, but you saw potential and
so gently humbled...

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My life cant be helped but still strike a pose
punch you in the face call for a second dose
i got so much ice hell just frooze
light a fire up under all your noses
im the satanic...

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I was dragged to this odd church reluctantly
Sure I had shingles that would not go away, 
But I did not believe in this kind of thing.
Under protest, my best friend brought me,
Because she did.

You can...

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A simple phone call led to a plunge into suffering
Hyperventilating, from news of the sudden death of my friend
I gather my words and travel silently to the grave
A rose and Christmas tree are frozen in...

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The Continuous Ultimate Vacation 4 Me
is The Grand Canyon. Always Was, Always Will Be.
"A breathtaking sight," you've heard that expression before.
By definition, The Grand Canyon is a breathtaking sight for sure.
You never forget your first...

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Feeling displaced, misplaced, and suffocating
Running low on oxygen  hyperventilating.
Debilitating trying to keep pace running the same simple human rat race
1st place 
But no golden medal is won well, not that I anticipate 
No, not for...

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Anxiety is laying awake at night, sick to your stomach, because you have school tomorow and you're worried you'll say the wrong thing, or trip in front of everyone, or that no one will sit...

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RECONNAISSANCE PATROL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Scheduled for patrol tonight, damn I got the point
We must secure at least one exiting point
I hate night patrols, transiting from cover to debouch
I might be leading my buddies straight into an...

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I 
Throw myself into my poetry
Fling myself until I bleed
Until I'm knee deep in similes 
Until from my eyes seep seas of salty seeds
Spiraling in the double helix of hyperboles 
Hyper..
Hy..per..ven..
Hyperventilating
I Am the paint
I Am...

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Day 3 

The storm still having the upper hand is at large 

Narrator 
Inquisitive teacher noted this peculiar youngster is very hyper, yet again autism could play a major role factor in his abnormal behavior...

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2am. 
I took a shower by myself, while everyone around me slept 
I figured some alone time would give me time to recollect. 
I washed my hair like normal then I heard a creak beneath...

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Talking heads 
will give you their attached credentials
with solemn aplomb

And it’s plenty hyphen proof long

They’ll make unlearned eyes gasp
at their hyped expertise

Get simpler minds to hyperventilate,
as their lower rack thoughts 
common sense overheat

Everyday, mundane pondering
takes...

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It was a cold winter day, when I took a photo of the sunrise
I had no idea what I would find out, hours later
The man I loved who made the biggest difference in my life,...

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MINNIE

Entrant.
Act One. Scene Five. A voyage into The Minnie.
Never embark on this imagination without Me
Como dije, te ves hermosa
With gusto sing I the booty song with every strength I can muster.
Lips sumptuous, dripping sweetness is...

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So agrophobia,
A most ridiculous phobia,
Illogical impractical and so unreasonable, 
The symptoms completely inconceivable,
A fear so irrational like a fear of ones shadow,
Although sciophobia is the fear of ones shadow, 
Both more ridiculous than the other...

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His hand is strafing the castellation on his trumpet, the valves moving up down up down like deranged pistons under the random machine gun fire of his fingers. Each note is a projectile that concusses...

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Have you ever been lost?
Lost to the point where you didn't know which way to look.
Which direction to point your feet? And every street looked the same?
Have you ever lost yourself  in a transcendental feeling...

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My open mouth breathing, blast you with hot breath,
Hyperventilating while holding my breath, at the same time I barely exhale death
Eyes petechiae blood on all sides, the more I hold this deep lung.
Spewing fire with...

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BEAUTY THAT SLAIN
Vivacious voyage into the Azure
Heart never embark on this imaginative story
Without the consent of the body
To envision your whole, glamour and bliss
Which is a physical adorningly masterpiece
Lips sumptuous, dripping sweetness in every word
Your...

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What do I feel like writing?
Oh yeah, I am going to write about special feeling called love
Is it love?
You don’t know what to call it
But you know that you are happy when you see that...

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Under the covers,
you got the flashlight on
Shivering and hyperventilating,
you’re convinced there are monsters
lurking in the dark
It’s time to test your eleven-year-old
faltering courage
Before your younger sister tell somebody
how scared at night you be
A boy frightened of...

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Silence screamed that dark night,
As I lamented my foolish mistake,
Palpitating from fright,
I knew I’d still be up when dawn would break,
Heart hyperventilating, my body started to ache,
Mind bewildered - my thoughts went astray,
I closed my...

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